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Who’s DOD?
Who tells them what to do?
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Flynn: Within the U.S. Government, there are non-intel community partners with whom we have done a lot of great work. One thing that is not really well-known is our work with what we call the Non-Title 50 (NT50) crowd; members include the Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture, Federal Communications Commission, Social Security Administration, and Transportation Administration. One of the benefits of having the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is that they have discov- ered this other segment of our government that has an enormous footprint globally. Health and Human Services for example mon- itors health and disease world-wide. The DIA has the National Center for Medical Intelligence so we have developed this capabil- ity internally when in fact we have an entire government structure that does health and human services globally; we are working much more closely with such organizations. On the operational side of our military forces, I would
say that the fusion of intelligence and opera- tions is probably one of the biggest lessons learned out of the last decade of war. This idea of operations and intelligence fusion is one of the lessons learned from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. We are trying to incor- porate that lesson in our operational activities both in CONUS, and around the world. There are exercises, combat deployments, and con- flict deployments in which we are involved where I see this all the time; it is very good as far as applying a lesson learned from this past decade.
You spoke about the integration of socio-political, cultural intelligence within the intel community. To what extent are we collecting information and creating intelligence dealing with non-state actors, particularly transnational illicit networks?
Flynn: This is difficult for defense intelli- gence. Defense intelligence is about under- standing nation-state militaries and their capa- bilities, their intentions, their doctrine, their organization, and their leadership. What you are asking about reflects a really different dynamic that we are facing in the world today. It is not that transnational, organized crime had not been around—the mafia in the early part of the last century was a transnational, criminal organization—but the growth of this threat, and not just in terms of the scale and the dimensions, but also how well-funded many of these organizations are, is a new dynamic. They are funding things like militia groups, terrorist organizations, and other aspects of the environment, such as the global flow of narcotics and weapons. Weapons smuggling is a huge gray and black market driven by large sums of money and very
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